Inside the A.I. Arms Race That Changed Silicon Valley Forever

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Inside the A.I. Arms Race That Changed Silicon Valley Forever

Once ChatGPT was unleashed, none of that mattered as much, according to interviews with more than 80 executives and researchers, as well as corporate documents and audio recordings. The instinct to be first or biggest or richest — or all three — took over. The leaders of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies set a new course and pulled their employees along with them.

Mr. Zuckerberg’s head was elsewhere. But ChatGPT would demand his attention. His top A.I. scientist, Yann LeCun, arrived in the Bay Area from New York…, Dr. LeCun delivered a warning to Mr. Zuckerberg. He said Meta should match OpenAI’s technology and also push forward with work on an A.I. assistant that could do stuff on the internet on your behalf. Websites like Facebook and Instagram could become extinct, he warned. A.I. was the future.

At dinner that evening, Mr. Zuckerberg approached Dr. LeCun. “I have been thinking about what you said,” Mr. Zuckerberg told his chief A.I. scientist, according to a person familiar with the conversation. “And I think you’re right.”

At the end of the summer of 2022, Microsoft’s offices weren’t yet back to their pre-pandemic bustle. But on Sept. 13, Mr. Nadella summoned his top executives to a meeting at Building 34, Microsoft’s executive nerve center. It was two months before Mr. Altman made the decision to release ChatGPT.

Then Mr. Nadella took the lectern to tell his lieutenants that everything was about to change. This was an executive order from a leader who typically favored consensus. “We are pivoting the whole company on this technology,” Eric Horvitz, the chief scientist, later remembered him saying. “This is a central advancement in the history of computing, and we are going to be on that wave at the front of it.”

It was an edict, and edicts didn’t happen very often at Google. But Google was staring at a real crisis. Its business model was potentially at risk.

Lots of tech companies were working on their own A.I. chatbots. But the people to beat were at Anthropic, started the year before by researchers and engineers who left OpenAI because they thought that Sam Altman, its chief executive, had not made safety a priority as A.I. grew more powerful….

By Cade Metz, Karen Weise, Nico Grant and Mike Isaac of The New York Times

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AI is so indispensable to this profession that nearly 60% of the workers who use it say they’d rather take a 10% pay cut than go without the technology

For Wall Street, AI’s rise is bringing back memories of the internet boom—the prospect of surging corporate productivity and consistent cost savings is sending shares of many tech companies soaring. But AI also poses serious economic risks, particularly in the labor market, which has left many workers feeling more fearful than excited.

Still, the use of AI is increasing in many workplaces. And if you ask high-paid workers who use generative AI—which can create text, imagery, audio, or video—how the technology has impacted their lives, fear isn’t the first thing to come to mind.

In fact, 59% of workers who use generative AI for market intelligence research said they would rather take a 10% pay cut than lose access to their AI tools, according to AlphaSense’s State of GenAI 2023 report. That includes 54% of financial services workers.

The rise of AI use among market intelligence researchers, who focus on understanding and detailing customer trends and behaviors, could signal that the technology’s role in other industries is about to surge….

by Will Daniel of Fortune Magazine

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